Posted May 8, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Kathy Willens

Beto O’Rourke couldn’t win an election to be a senator in his own state, but he thinks he can be president. The idea is just hysterical, yet he’s going for it. On some level, you almost have to appreciate the chutzpah it takes to lose at the state level and believe you can still win at the national level, but he’s campaigning for president even as I write this.

During one of his campaign stops, one at a middle school in Iowa, a student expressed fears and concerns over such shootings.

More than 40 students piled into a classroom and O’Rourke began with a brief introduction that echoed comments he makes several times a day while campaigning. When he joked about his Republican mother voting for him during the Senate race, an adult listening from the back was the only one who laughed. Ditto for comments about finding rare independent voters in Texas.

But things grew emotional moments later when 14-year-old Milan Underberg cried openly as she asked about the “little or no effort” that the federal government has made to stop school shootings. Her voice breaking, she said, “I’m afraid that, one day, I’ll go to school …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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